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About
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Services
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Controversies
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GitHub Archive Program
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Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
- Founded
- February 8, 2008 (18 years ago) (2008-02-08) (as Logical Awesome LLC)
- Founders
- Tom Preston-Werner · Chris Wanstrath · P. J. Hyett · Scott Chacon
- Industry
- Collaborative version control (GitHub) · AI development tools (GitHub Copilot) · Web host (GitHub Pages) · Package repository (npm)
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, U.S.
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Available in
- English
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Proprietary Proprietary software
- Git
- Distributed version control
- Access control
- Bug tracking Bug tracking system
- Software feature
- Task management
- Continuous integration
- Wikis Wiki
- San Francisco
- Microsoft
- Open source
- Repositories Repository (version control)
- Source code
About
- Tom Preston-Werner
- Chris Wanstrath
- P. J. Hyett
- Beta release
- Flat organization
- Self-management Workers' self-management
- Open allocation
- Middle management
- Julio Avalos
- Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship
- Start-up business Startup company
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Venture capital
- Series B round Series B
- Sequoia Capital
- Thrive Capital
- Ruby on Rails
- Forked Fork (software development)
- ReadWriteWeb
- SourceForge
- Google Code
- Distributed denial-of-service
- Bitnami
- Nat Friedman
- Thomas Dohmke
- Shit
- .NET Core .NET
- Chakra Core Chakra (JavaScript engine)
- MSBuild
- PowerShell
Services
- Repositories Content repository
- Plugins Plug-in (computing)
- Social networking
- Wiki software
- Gollum Gollum Wiki
- Social network graph Collaboration graph
- Review changes to code Code review
- Linus Torvalds
- Erlang Erlang (programming language)
- Revision history Version control
- Issue tracking Issue tracking system
- Pull requests Pull request
- README § On GitHub README
- Markdown
- Wikis
- GitHub Codespaces
- Online IDE
- @ mentioning Mention (blogging)
- Emojis Emoji
- Task-lists To do list
- Geospatial Geospatial analysis
- WebGL
- Three.js
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
- Open Source Definition
- Terms of service
- Youtube-dl
- Static Static web page
- Web hosting service
- Blogs Blog
GitHub Copilot
GitHub Archive Program
Controversies
- Harassment
- Medium Medium (website)
- Iran
- Crimea
- Cuba
- North Korea
- Syria
- Developer Developer (software)
- VPNs Virtual private network
- IP proxies Proxy server
- ISIS
- DDoS
- Circumventing Internet censorship Internet censorship circumvention
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- The current administration First presidency of Donald Trump
- To abandon "master/slave" branch terminology Master–slave (technology)
- Black Lives Matter
- Performative activism
- January 6 United States Capitol attack
- Nazis Neo-Nazism
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Reception
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.GitHub
Nodes172
Edges171
Triples303
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011628
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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GitHub
Top relations
related to Acquisition by Microsoft · 21
GitHub → According, AI, Chakra Core, From, Microsoft, Microsoft Cloud, Microsoft Docs, MSBuild, NET Core, October, On June, PowerShell, PowerToys, Scott Guthrie, The, Under Microsoft, US, Visual Studio Code, Windows Calculator, Windows Terminal
related to Education program · 19
GitHub → Bitnami, Campus Expert, Campus Experts, Crowdflower, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, GitHub Campus Experts, GitHub Student Developer Pack, HackHands, In, Namecheap, Orchestrate, Screen, SendGrid, Stripe, The Campus Experts, To, Travis CI, Unreal Engine
related to ICE contract · 19
GitHub → An, As, Black Lives Matter, CEO Nat Friedman, Customs Enforcement, December, Detractors, George Floyd, GitHub Enterprise Server, He, ICE, Immigration, In, June, November, October, The, The ICE, This
related to Sanctions · 14
GitHub → Crimea, Cuba, Developers, GitHub Pages, However, IP, Iran, It, Medium, North Korea, On July, Soon, Syria, VPNs
related to Censorship · 13
GitHub → After, China, DDoS, GitHub-hosted, India, Internet, ISIS, On December, On March, On October, Russia, The, Turkey
related to history · 13
GitHub → At, Chris Wanstrath, February, Hyett, Inc, On February, Rails, Ruby, San Francisco, Scott Chacon, The, The GitHub, Tom Preston-Werner
related to Mascot · 12
GitHub → Cameron McEfee, GitHub's, Later, McEfee, Mona, Octocat, Octopuss, Oxley, Simon Oxley, Since GitHub, The, The Octodex
related to Services · 12
GitHub → Anyone, Git, Gollum, In, In May, Inc, January, Multiple, On April, Previously, Projects, With
related to GitHub Archive Program · 11
GitHub → Arctic World Archive, Boxing, February, In July, It, Norway, Project Silica, Svalbard, Svalbard Global Seed Vault, The, The GitHub Archive Program
related to Harassment allegations · 11
GitHub → CEO Tom Preston-Werner, GitHub's CEO, GitHub's CEO Chris Wanstrath, Horvath's, However, In April, In March, Julie Ann Horvath, Preston-Werner, The, Tom Preston-Werner
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
repositories code source users software developers microsoft 2019 public projects git open developer announced preston-werner service development million pages github's
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub | Area served | Worldwide | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | ASN | .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r… | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Available in | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Current status | Active | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Employees | 3,787 | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Founded | February 8, 2008 (18 years ago) (2008-02-08) (as Logical Awesome LLC) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Founders | Tom Preston-Werner | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Founders | Chris Wanstrath | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Founders | P. J. Hyett | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Founders | Scott Chacon | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Headquarters | San Francisco, California, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Industry | Collaborative version control (GitHub) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Industry | AI development tools (GitHub Copilot) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Industry | Web host (GitHub Pages) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Industry | Package repository (npm) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | IPv6 support | No | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Key people | Mike Taylor (CFO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Key people | Kyle Daigle (COO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Launched | April 10, 2008; 18 years ago (2008-04-10) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Parent | Microsoft | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Registration | Optional (required for creating and joining repositories) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Revenue | $1 billion (2022) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Type of business | Subsidiary | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Type of site | Collaborative version control | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | URL | github.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Users | 150 million (as of May 2025[update]) | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Written in | Ruby | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Written in | JavaScript | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Written in | Go | 1.00 | infobox |
| GitHub | Written in | C | 1.00 | infobox |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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